Had exactly the same problem on another list, with most likely contributing culprit being the SMTP server at vm.marist.edu.
More explicitly, you need follow Walt's suggestion and send an email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message set ibm-main fullhdr If this fixes the problem, this should more accurately be described as a "circumvention". The root cause is that the original message has headers that indicate a character encoding of UTF-8 and it is passing through at least one SMTP server that is either seriously back-level or mis-configured to give a response that it doesn't support 8BITMIME (i.e, only 6-bit character codes are supported). This forces the Email sender to incur the additional 34% space overhead of encoding the UTF-8 data in a base64 encoding and adding additional headers to that effect, but in this case those headers typically end up before the "Subject" header rather than after. If you are reading messages via list email rather than a newsreader and don't have the "fullhdr" option specified, headers prior to the Subject header are stripped and in the above case you loose the critical header that tells your email client that the data is base64 encoded, so you see undecoded garbage instead of the decoded text. Specifying "fullhdr" lets the critical "Contents" header propagate and should eliminate the symptom. On 01/29/2010 02:07 PM, Walt Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:52:03 -0500, Thompson, Steve > <steve_thomp...@stercomm.com> wrote: > >> It appears that it is an Exchange setting that I have no control over. > > > If you haven't checked your ibm-main list-serve settings at the ibm-main > server (nothing to do with Exchange) then I don't think you can be sure of > that. > -- Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR jremoveccapsew...@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
